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The tan which is invisable to the human eye....

3 February 2011

I think you will probably have gathered from reading the blog that I am partial to a bit of fake tan when I’m on a night out. My hg of all tanning products is St Tropez Mousse- I can’t get enough of the stuff. However my only gripe with this product, is the fact that for a night out- I normally have 3 coats on my legs and 2 on my upper body so I appear to have a tan. Now after reading so many positive reviews in both magazines and on your blogs, I decided to try Xen Tan- I think it was the fact that the darker colour it claims to produce would drastically cut my tanning time.

Before coming into the “blogging community” I would buy products just for the sake of buying, spending far too much money on stuff. However now I do my research, ask for opinions on twitter and then buy the product. I’d done my research on xen tan and opted for a bottle of the deep bronze luxe tan.

"Offering outstanding results, it contains more DHA than our best-selling Deep Bronze product, so offers a deeper colour after just one application. Plus the larger pack means you'll enjoy even more tans from each purchase. It also contains additional vitamin E, Green Tea and skin-loving anti-oxidants that soothe, smooth and nourish skin while providing an instant and natural colour you'll love"

Excited much?? Oh yes, now as soon as I received this product through the post I had to use it. I double checked that the product didn’t look off (it was fine), and the smell- wow no digestive biscuit smelling for me.

However these feelings soon started to disappear, after applying the tan to my legs alarm bells started ringing when there was no colour in the product after putting it on my legs- nothing at all. I had no guidance as to whether my legs were covered or not, as you can tell from the pictures- there is no guidance. Now as I haven’t read on anyone’s blogs about this, I thought it must be normal. But considering St Tropez lotion leaves colour guidance, I was a bit disappointed with there being none. While waiting for the colour to develop I started to doubt whether my product was “off” as there was no change at all in my leg colour- no tan developing nothing.

Can you see where I have rubbed the product in?? No colour guidance at all.

Next morning, after 12 hours of it being on my legs I wake up to find that my legs have got a slight orange tinge to it, and after rinsing in the shower, my legs were left looking whiter than white- no golden tan, nothing. Disappointment- oh yes.

Overall thoughts on this- I love the smell of the product and thats about it. Considering it didn’t work at all- what a waste of money, I’ll be sticking to the St Tropez Mousse in future.

This is my holy grail tanner! I use this in the winter as I dont want to look natural, people assume it is my natural skincolour which is fine by me as I am naturally ghost white! I wouldnt leave it on for 12 hours either, I leave it on for around 3 hours and I am brown enough. x

xen tan was my first fake tan - i don't use fake tan that much as i'm hopeless at applying, but i used the mousse version, but i did also use the face tanner too and it was really good, its was definitely obvious i had a tan - but maybe thats because i am a ghost.xx

I am so grateful you posted this, for so long I have debated whether I should go for Xen or St Tropez (on a student budget these are quite pricey!) and i'm seriously pale, I think i'll get my money's worth and go for st tropez!

I'm thinking you must have gotten a bad bottle cause I use this ALL the time and i'm as white as a ghost naturally! I've got just one application on now and I look like i've been in Spain for a week, lovely colour!

Try tweeting the ladies over @XenTan_UK and let them know whats happened, they're really helpful! But in the mean time if you're after a tan which gives instant colour, i'd say Xen Tan Dark Lotion (the one with the pump) is your best bet, that's my summer tan!